A Jewish breast cancer campaigner has praised Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie for revealing that she has had a double mastectomy, saying it will put awareness of the disease “through the roof”.
Ms Jolie disclosed in an interview this week that she had had preventive surgery because she carried a gene that put her in the high-risk category for the disease.
Emma Parlons had a similar operation after being told by doctors that she carried the aggressive BRCA gene and had an 85 per cent of suffering from breast cancer.
“I felt like I had a time-bomb strapped to me,” she said. “It’s brilliant what Angelina Jolie is doing. It’s so sensible. If she is so beautiful and is willing to have the operation, then it makes it OK for other women to do it.”
